Word: balloting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...since 1880 the number of qualified voters who registered a choice at the polls has declined from 80 per cent to a mere 49 per cent in 1920. State percentages are even more discouraging. In South Carolina in 1920 only 8.5 per cent of the qualified voters stuck a ballot in the box. In New England, the stronghold for the free suffrages of the people, Massachusetts was high, with a total of 53-3 per cent. Politically minded citizens seem to have moved to the West, where staggered totals of over 60 per cent of the qualified voters were discovered...
Once a man has registered he can vote by mail, securing a ballot by writing to his town or city clerk...
...William McMillen Adams, nee Davis, has taken her place in her father's battle line. Thousands of letters have been sent out over her signature, it is reported. She was told that 3,700,000 young women would cast their first ballot this fall, and she murmured...
...voters who had written a virtually new chapter in American political initiative in meeting the extraordinary requirements of the California electoral law. In one day, each of these 50,000 persons affixed his signature thirteen times to the petition to place Independent Progressive electors on the ballot. This action of the electorate one judge out of seven how declares null and void. Fortunately, while the will of the people has been thwarted, there is a way out for them. They can still register their support of the Independent Progressive candidacy by voting for the Progressive electors named on the Socialist...
...State Assembly and arch-opponent of Smith, was one of the prominent candidates for the Republican nomination for Governor. Almost at the last minute he withdrew. The Wadsworth machine, with neatly oiled precision, nominated the man whom Wadsworth had picked in advance. He was chosen on the first ballot without the slightest excitement. It was all cut and dried. Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, son of the late President...